im rlly new to this site and idk how to use it lol
On the newer Sony cameras: do the “floor model stickers” (the ones that advertise capabilities) contribute to the item’s collect-ability at all? Back in the day, I always removed those since they kind of alter the device’s aesthetic and they’re clearly not intended to keep.
I still have a mavica!
which one?
Its silver. I do not have it near me to look at the model. Holds up well! All my floppies are readable still.
This is nice. I should do the same thing. I’m not sure where some of my cameras even are though. And many of them are film, not digital.
find them!
Nice collection! And what cam did you use to take that picture?
My Google pixel 7 lol
I had an early digital camera (Sony? Casio?) that could send pictures via infrared. With a Nokia 9110 you could then send a (badly) grey scaled picture via fax.
A lot of vintage digital gear. Are you over on the other place too?
im only here cuz im banned from the other red place lol
Lol I came here after the third party apps thing. Sadly the other place is still better for stuff like photography imo just because it’s that much more active.
yeah… theres no dedicated place for mavicas :(.
That is a lot of Mavicas!
Do they all still work?
yep! i love using them whenever i get the chance to. i get novelty film cameras just to display as you can see but if i get a digital camera, they have to work.
I remember using a floppy Mavica about 25 years ago, borrowed from my school…
My first digital camera was a Fujifilm iX-1, didn’t take a lot of photos with it, but it was interesting…
Later I bought myself a Canon EOS 400D, that was my first proper digital camera, I still have plenty of photos taken with it in my collection.
Ten years later, I got the camera that probably influenced me the most, a Panasonic Lumix GX80, a brilliant little camera with TERRIBLE ergonomics. I carried that with me every single day, I learned a LOT about photography with it, one of the control dials broke a few years after buying it, but I kept it going by swapping apature/shutter speed between the dials depending on what I needed.
In 2023, I got a bonus from work, and I had a very fun and interesting lunch at Scandinavian Photo in Stockholm, I had a list and got myself a Panasonic S5 with a 20-60mm kit lens, a 50mm prime lens, a proper backpack, a peakdesign camera strap, two SD cards and probably something more that I have forgotten. It was a super fun experience getting to treat a camera store kinda like a supermarket with a personal shopper.
In the next months, I bought a Sigma contemporary 100-400mm lens, a used, but amazing, Lumix 24-105mm f/4 lens (I need to service this lens, the AF seems to me broken), some lights and an external flash.
The S5 is a fantastic camera, with one big flaw, the AF is slow.
I enjoy planespotting and have started saving up for a Sony A7 III or IV and a 600mm lens ahead of the Swedish Air Force centennial celebration in August…
I am an IT guy with a photo hobby…
what mavica did you use?
I don’t know exactly, it may have been the FD-81 or FD-75
the fd81 is very pretty, the prettiest only second to the fd7
I never considered the styling of the cameras at the time, but I did when I picked my S5, I really like the styling of it!
Just a reminder, I think dpreview has a big backlog of gorgeous product photos going back a long, long way, if you are luck they might have some good photos of the Mavicas
thanks twinnn!
Look at you big ballin with RAM just sitting around
J/k nice variety of Mavicas!
what can i say, the ram stick was just sitting there in a mother board in some display case in an it classroom. when no one was looking it just happened to fly into my pocket (because of the wind ofc)
Gorgeous collection! Also, is that a Kane & Lynch comic book?
Yesss. Kane and lynch 2 is a peak game
Very nice! I’ve been so temped to buy that lego slr camera for years now. Those old sony floppy disk cameras are fun.
you should 100% get a sony mavica. all my mavicas apart from 1 i got as untested and they work perfectly and i got them all for under 30 quid each.
I’m curious to hear what your workflow is for accessing photos from them in 2025. (USB floppy drive, I assume?)
ok so, theres 1 camera that i have (The sony mavica fd200) that has a direct usb connection to a computer. lets say i take pictures on another camera, i transfer the floppy disk and battery to the fd200 and plug it into my computer and from there i can access the pictures from there. this also applies to my only battery thats actually working. i have to put it inot my fd200 to charge it since it has a charging port on the side of the camera since i dont have a seperate charging cradle for my np330 battery
That’s more interesting an answer than I was expecting! I didn’t even consider that any floppy disk Mavicas could be modern enough to have USB. The only time I used one of these, you could still assume a floppy drive in every computer.
the last one that used floppies was made in 2002.
